Silent Startup/Reboot - Can I Make It Verbose

When I received my new HP Pavilion 500-023w Desktop PCs, I noticed that a circular HP logo or a fully blank screen would come up during the system startup and reboot processes, instead of the more detailed displays I'd get under Windows 7 (chance to hit F10, or the general boot messages). How can I get the system to give me the full display of all the stuff going on at reboot?
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